Angela Brown already knows she’s a diva. Now she gets to show the rest of the world.

Bobby Plump’s last-second shot in 1954 made Milan High School an Indiana legend. But it was a low-budget, feel-good film—released in November 1986—that sealed the deal for a national audience. IM goes behind the scenes of Hoosiers with the filmmakers, actors, and observers to tell the story in their own words.

Countrified, commonsensical, pragmatic, average, “basketball-crazed”—Indiana is one of only a handful of states with its own distinct brand, one that may not be sexy, but has proven powerful and dynamic enough to endure for two centuries. Too bad it barely captures the state’s true complexity.

The noted sports journalist and cohost of Pardon the Interruption checks in with IM before his April 12 speaking engagement on African Americans in baseball.

Before March Madness, there was Hoosier Hysteria. In 1955, Oscar Robertson and the players of Crispus Attucks became the nation’s first all-black team to win a state high-school athletic championship. Here, in their own words, Robertson and his teammates recount that momentous season.